Conquer Nature Quotes

#1. Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Barry Commoner

#3. W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Alan W. Watts

#4. Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Vaclav Havel

#6. To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Alex Campbell

#7. Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future-and of the future of America.

Gerald R. Ford

#8. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#9. Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Friedrich Schiller

#10. their own ends and to meddle in the affairs of others. I sometimes wonder if the gods and goddesses we call on today might once have walked the Earth as Witches themselves, having been so magical in life that they were deified in death.

Christian Day

#11. Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Maria Sibylla Merian

#12. I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.

John Morgridge

#13. I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

Georges Bernanos

#14. What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Hadewijch

#15. For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

Mary McDonnell

#16. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Plato

#17. Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Kiran Desai

#18. You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?

T.T. Escurel

#19. To conquer your nature is better than to conquer the whole world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. No, you're mistaken. Not 'What filthy weather' but 'It's a fine rainy day.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#21. So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

Renata Bowers

#22. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

Scott Hastie

#23. Diego looked at me and saw me. No one had seen me since Jesse.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#24. Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

Frederick Lenz

#25. My family's dreams about a future unfettered by the limitations imposed by "who you know" and dependent only on "what you know" was possible only in this beautiful land. Their

Mindy Kaling

#26. I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

Isabel Allende

#27. We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

C.S. Lewis

#28. It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature ... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

Humphry Davy

#30. So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Epicurus

#31. To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

Rick Yancey

#32. You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

Jim Whittaker

#33. [My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?

Amy Sutherland

#34. They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.

David Brooks